Re: [netmod] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7950 (5642)

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 14:15 +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:45:16PM +0000, Balázs Lengyel wrote:
> >    I am not asking for a change, but ...
> > 
> >    IMHO it would be better if YANG would not allow whitespace in enum names.
> >    It is a rarely needed freedom that degrades usability and can lead to
> >    mistakes
> >    and higher tool development costs. So it is bad for both people and
> > tools.
> > 
> >      * It is misleading, as a human user can mistakenly think that "this is
> >        legal" is actually 3 separate values
> >      * Some tools tend to consider spaces as separators
> >      * When creating code from YANG this needs special handling
> > 
> 
> Banning white space may make you feel better but it does not really
> solve the problem for tool makers. There are many more restrictions
> and going for the most restricted minimum gets us back to really
> limiting results.

I agree. It is not terribly difficult to support enum names containing spaces in
any programming language.

Lada 

> 
> /js
> 
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